Short story magazines have also gone really niche these days, are there *just readers* who subscribe? It's bizarre we live in times where discoverability for #fanfic on #AO3 is much higher than original short fiction. The internet and its platforms really dictate access.

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A renewed and formal #introduction:

Welcome, to Castle JaySkull. 🏰💀

A cyrpt of everything goth & horror. Land of those darker delights that tantalise the JaySkull. Feel free to share, comment, & take part in the growth of this necrotic caricature/account.

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Creator and writer: Jason

Okay #ChatGPT please write an erotic #InspectorGadget #fanfic that uses the line of dialogue "Go-go-gadget-handjob."

- me training the algorithm

Hi #HorrorFam

So, I'm going to introduce myself across a few posts, and get to know people with similar interests.

I am a #Horror fan and an #academic working I research at the University of Galway, #Ireland. I am currently examining #fanfic and fan works in response to horror movie villains.

My husband @Ashy_slashee, Brett, and I are also bestselling authors and regular contributors to numerous horror anthologies and magazines.

This is us looking like a 90s grunge band.

Candyman Whispers
Finale

Chicago State University, 1992

It was always you Helen.
The graduate student veers out of the lecture hall and across a quad with a water featured epicentre. She dodges undergrads as they hurry to their respective seminars.
It was always you.
Clouds thunder across the skies and stifle the suns burning stare.

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Candyman Whispers
Part Thirteen

Joe pulls against his binds, cries out into the unheeding atmosphere. Disinfectant fills his nostrils leaving an unpleasant taste in his mouth. Echoes reflect his tumultuous screams as other patients roar in response.
He sees beyond...

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Fan movies bring fresh ideas and love to any franchise. Which Halloween fan flick would you recommend?
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Voorhees Resurrection 1

There is no fear, nor suffering, as unique as drowning. Helplessness soaking mind and body as it submerges, whilst anguish fights the terror or sinking. Suffocating, swallowing fluids with

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Hell's Lament

Weary he comes, the soldier that never left the finite war. Never returned home. A traveller following the dust of decadence, each spoonful less bitter than the last until nothing mars that abrasive tongue.

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The Thing: Legion 2
A lonely planet, set apart from the cluster, the most inhabited quadrant of the cosmos, the indigenous species call it Earth. Primitive in technology, impure in connection.

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The Loomis Files
Part 2

The shell, the shape, fixates on faces. Stares for hours into the swooning gazes of his chemically subdued peers. Patients, or clients, such as they may be called, hold his interest. Medication has no notable effect on Michael, no grasp of his reality, and his reality is set apart from all others.

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Candyman Whispers
Part Six

Folk tale, passed from generation to generation, an idea. An abstract, hidden in the world of reflections. He reminds you of that which is etched in history's hall of horrors.

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Candyman Whispers
Part Five

Dedicated to the memory of Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts who served 191 days on the battlefields of WWI as part of the 369th infantry regiment.

Drafted from his fields in Elaine, Arkansas, Henry Roberts found himself entrenched within the Harlem Hellfighters.

CONTINUED BELOW

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Candyman Whispers
Part Two

What is love if not the binary opposition of hate? For the one cannot exist without the other. For meaning lies in contrast, but there lies a fine line between love and hate. It is not the vast chasm depicted in nomenclature. To simple it would be.

Love is the essence that drives us, the motivation that goals us. It is desire for that which is aesthetically pleasing.

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Grendel splits and caves. Jason dives for his machete, Ash reaches down and wrist attaches once again to saw. knowing that he can survive the cruel ambience of space, Jason launches himself through the hole. His thrusters guide him. He shakes Ash off, and they face off in space.

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His hand grabs her ankle, but she shakes it free and slaps the release mechanism, the lower door opens creating a torrential suction. Ripley climbs the ladder & heaves herself onto the upper platform, closing the inner door.
Beneath, both crane and Jason are released into space.
Satisfied with her triumph, Ripley hurries to the cockpit.
'Where's Mr Grotesque?' Ash asks.
'I blew him out the Goddam airlock.'
All sigh with relief.

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'Different circumstances.'

'Go on...' Tsunaron urges, throwing chainsaw at Ash. Ash nimbly catches it on his wrist, gives it a kick start and (because there is no other way out) runs at Jason. Chainsaw and machete clash. Blades lock again and again. Tsunaron attempts to wake Brodski, but to no avail.

#Immortalis #Horror #Scifi #FanFic #CW #HorrorMovies​

As Ash speaks, the two-way mirror shatters as Jason hurls himself through it. Ripley opens the door, and the remaining crew head to the escape pod.

'Hey slappy,' Tsunaron snaps, blocking Ash's path, 'this one beat ya before and he will do it again!'

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The crew and Ash tumble about the nanochamber. Power fades in and out. Solaris is no more. The ship continues on into deep space. A great pressure impacts the door, and another, and another. Silence.

'Maybe he has gone?' Tsunaron posits.

'Stick your head out and take a look!'

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'I beat him single-handedly before,' Ash raises his stump, 'guess an encore is needed.'

'How did you beat him?' Ripley asks.

'A little bit of luck and a whole lotta me, that's how.'

In the cockpit a shadow is cast..

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